Daniel G. Nocera (MIT), hinted at the possibility of bringing solar energy to the poor soon at the end of his talk at the recent ACS Meeting. ChemistryViews followed up

Ordinary cotton coated with silver and electrified creates water filter that has no moving parts and requires very little power

Cubes made from sugar molecules represent a new form of porous metal - organic framework

Albert Schenning, Carsten Schmuck, Ramón Martínez-Máñez, and José Barluenga are interviewed this month

Ru-based dye and Ti nanoparticles combine to give solar cells of high efficiency and a variety of colors

Elucidation of design rules for iridium-based emitters could lead to improvements in OLEDS

New MOF of interest for industrially important gas separation procedures due to narrow pores and high selectivities

Inclusion of Cu-based MOF into the HPLC silica stationary phase using new synthesis method gives good separation

Metal – organic frameworks, their targeted synthesis and applications are the subject of a special issue of Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.

Snapshots of the ACS Meeting, as seen from the Wiley booth